Saturday, May 2, 2015

Authentic Assessment












Providing student feedback is a responsibility of a nurse educator, and essential to the student learning process.  All forms of student feedback should provide students with not only what they may have missed or were incorrect on but should also provide students with their strengths to reinforce the appropriate learning.  Feedback needs to be timely and constructive as well.  Proper feedback not only shows the student where they were incorrect but should provide them with useful ways to improve in their areas of weakness.

As a nurse educator I will provide my students with timely, constructive, and useful feedback.  I believe that students need to not only understand what it is that they might have gotten wrong but why and how can they correct that or how can I lead them to the correct information.  Providing rationale behind a concept or a correct answer to a question and why it is correct and why a certain answer isn’t, for example in a test, can help the student understand and helps develop critical thinking skills. 

Using feedback to “feed forward” allows nurse educators to take what the students learned or didn’t learn and help them develop and improve their instruction of certain material and reteach or reinforce as necessary. 

 
Carnegie Mellon  This website gives examples of formative and summative assessment
Effective feedback for learning This site explains 20 ways to provide feedback
 

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